By G. MICHAEL GRAHAM Fort Thomas Matters Sports Reporter If the trend holds to form, the Highlands Bluebirds girls soccer team could claim its seventh regional title. Since winning back-to-back state titles in 2005 and 2006, Highlands has won a regional crown every even year in 2008 and 2010. The 2008 squad fell 2-0 to […]
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Andrea Conners: Thoughts on Sentencing
Photo Credit: WLWT Former Highlands High School Teacher, Andrea Conners -33, has been in the Campbell County Detention Center for 4 days now. It should be noted that throughout this process, which began to unfold when she abruptly resigned from the school in early May, she had yet to see the inside of a jail […]
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Update on Newport Pavilion
Via Darrin – According to Building Cincinnati (http://www.building-cincinnati.com/) OKI awarded funding for the reconstruction of the intersection at Carothers Road into the Newport Pavilion. I called my contact at Anchor and they indicated this has no impact on their plans for building out the rest of the development. However, he gave me a few updates […]
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Soccer Team, Community Rally Behind Frink
By G. MICHAEL GRAHAM Fort Thomas Matters Sports Reporter Nothing defines a community more than how it comes together when adversity strikes. The Fort Thomas community has been dealing with that since two Mondays ago. Clay Frink, a junior soccer player at Highlands High School, was hit by a sport utility vehicle at the intersection […]
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Highlands Boys Soccer Preview
By G. MICHAEL GRAHAM Fort Thomas Matters Sports Reporter The last time the Highlands Bluebirds boys soccer team did not make it to the district tournament finals, a blessing happened the following year. The 2007 team did not make it out of the district tournament. But the following year, Highlands finished state runner-up losing 7-2 […]
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Scrimmage of the Year: Highlands 31 – Louisville Trinity 63
By G. MICHAEL GRAHAM Fort Thomas Matters Sports Reporter Everyone associated with the Highlands Bluebirds football program can take solace in two facts. The game at David Cecil Memorial Stadium on Friday was just a scrimmage, and the Bluebirds may not face anyone like the Louisville Trinity Shamrocks throughout the regular season. Trinity won the […]
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Tricia Macke and Family Tonight at Mio’s for The Brighton Center
Congrats to Cameron Grimme, who ordered the Collier Mama Pizza at Mio’s and won a golf Divotcard, good for FREE golf and FREE range balls at 11 area courses. – Ever wanted to see Fox19’s Tricia Macke and her brood eating copious amounts of pizza? Well, tonight’s the night. Mark vs. Food featuring the Macke […]
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NewCath Looks to Bounce Back from Early Outster in 2011
By G. MICHAEL GRAHAM Fort Thomas Matters Sports Reporter NEWPORT – The Newport Central Catholic Thoroughbreds football team owns three state titles since 2005. They hope to add a fourth this year to ease the sting of watching the Class 2A, District 6 rival Covington Holy Cross Indians win it last year. Holy Cross took […]
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Van Damme It’s Friday Links
– First I’d like to officially welcome G. Michael Graham into the Fort Thomas Matters fold. In an effort to provide you a myriad of journalistic endeavors, we’ve been carefully adding arrows to our writing quiver. Michael, who has a Journalism degree, and is one of our most accomplished writers professionally, will be covering sports […]
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Highlands Football Preview: Race for Seis
By G. Michael Graham Fort Thomas Matters Sports Writer What is a dream to many is a yearly expectation for the Highlands Bluebirds football team. That’s what happens when you have won 828 games since 1915, good for second in the country behind just Valdosta (Ga.) High’s 869. The 21 state championships and a stellar […]
